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LOCK-UP POR PRINTERS GALLBYS. No. 356,532. Patnted Jan. 25, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EECE.

EUGENE M. eEovEE, oF sYEAoUsE, NEW YORK.

LOCK-UP FOR PRINTERS GALLEYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356.532, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed May 12, 1F86. Serial No. 201,928. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE M. GRovEE, of Syracuse, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lock-Ups for Printers Galleys, of 4whichthe following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichl Figure l is a plan view of my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section taken on line x x, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section taken on line y y, Fig. l; Fig. 4, an end View, and Figs. 5 and 6 detail views.

Similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved lock-up for printers7 galleys which is adjustable to different widths of set-up,7 and which can be locked at any desired point, and will hold the form of type securely. It is designed to take the place of the wedgingblocks of wood driven in alongside of the typeforrn, and of the metallic wedges, which are wedged together by a key turned upon cogs It is constructed a follows:

A is the galley, constructed with a fiat sheetmetal bed, 1, having rigid upright sides 2 3, of wood or metal, and having also an end piece, a, across one end between the sides, all of the ordinary construction, except as to the side 3, which is provided with horizontal slots through it, 4 5, which slots are duplicated, and the end a.

In each of the slots 4 I pivotally secure a curved adjuster, 6, which is upon the arc of a circle and is provided with a curved slot, 7, the sides of which are upon the same arc of a circle as the adjuster.

B is my locking-bar, constructed with a fiat body, 8, and an upright liange, 9, the whole standing upon the bed l at about the same height as the sides 2 3 and end a, and .all being of somewhat less height than the type the buttons 1l and the adjuster 6 upon these posts. I also construct a slot longitudinally and horizontally through the end a, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. l, in which slot I insert one end of the rod I2, which extends lengthwise through the bar B, projecting beyond the end of the bar far enough to reach through the enda, and upon its outer end I place a head, 13, which prevents its removal, and this rod, and its head sliding with the bar B lengthwise of that slot, operates to guide the bar and to prevent its moving away from the end fr. 'When the bar is thrown up to the side 3, the free ends of the adjusters pass outward through the slots 5, as shown in Fig. 1 by the dotted lines. I also show, by dotted lines in Fig. l, the bar thrown inward to the greatest extent possible, the posts 10 then being at the extreme outer ends of the slots in the adjusters.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show a device for locking the rod 12, consisting of a Vertical longitudinal slot, 14, in the end a, opening into the rod-slot, an upright post in slot 14, connected to the rod l2, anda set-screw, 15, by which I lock the rod at any point.

I operate my device as follows: As the type are set up they are placed in the galley in the ordinary Way, and when the form is set up or the galley filled and I desire to lock it' I press the bar B firmly against the type, and when pressed up hard enough I screw down the buttons Il, and thus fastening the adjusters 6 and holding the bar B securely and locking the galley. When I use the locking device in the end a, I also lock the rod l2 by the set-screw 15; or I can lock the rod l2 first, and then,

vpressing against the end of the bar B, by the leverage thus obtained I can lock the galley up tighter.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A lock-up for printers galleys, consisting of a galley provided with a slotted side, a locking-bar having a projecting rod fitting into the galley end and provided with adjusting setscrew, and curved slotted adjusters pivot-ally mounted in the slotted galley-side and adjustably secured to the locking-bar by set-screws locking the adjusters, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of April, 1886.

EUGENEv M. GBOVER. In presence of A. D. ALLEN, F. W. BAEKEE.

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